RHEL 4 KVM guests reporting "warning: many lost ticks"
Issue
- RHEL 4 KVM guests have been reporting the following error messages:
warning: many lost ticks.
Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
rip __do_softirq+0x4d/0xd0
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 4
- KVM virtual guest
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